{"id":929,"date":"2004-09-28T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=929"},"modified":"2004-09-28T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T00:39:11","slug":"the-battle-for-the-wiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/09\/28\/the-battle-for-the-wiki\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for the Wiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002823\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">The Wikipedia<\/a> is an online user-created encylopedia where ideological and factional debates fight for the heart and soul of the content.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t like the content?  Dispute it.  And the denziens of judgement will push it through a path toward alteration.<\/p>\n<p>Something I posted online became the basis for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/breadclipredux.html\">an entry<\/a>.  And, as you can see, the dispute over whether to keep it online or dump it raged on for a while: the sides were &#8220;Yes, barely.  Keep.&#8221; to &#8220;Sheer Idiocy.  DUMP!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I notice, from bloglines, that the two sides over the facts and basic tenor for the entry on <i>Lyndon LaRouche<\/i> are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:Lyndon_LaRouche\">currently being disputed<\/a>.  Thus, we find revision after revision after revision, and a wikipedia entry in complete limbo.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m terribly interested in the content, but I find the process a little fascinating.  Just try to give a &#8220;neutral point of view&#8221; on a political cult figure \/ truth-teller.  And try to convince two sides of the correct &#8220;facts&#8221; that matter and \/ or actually exist.<\/p>\n<p>You could pare it down to its most noncontroversial elements.  But, the LaRouche Youth Squad would demand nothing short of a glorified portrait.  (And if you wish to parallel it to something more understandable, replace &#8220;LaRouche&#8221; with &#8220;Reagan&#8221; and the fight to get something named after Reagan in every county in America.)  Vice-versa too, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia is an online user-created encylopedia where ideological and factional debates fight for the heart and soul of the content. Don&#8217;t like the content? Dispute it. And the denziens of judgement will push it through a path toward alteration. Something I posted online became the basis for an entry. And, as you can see, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}